Here's my first Mastodon post!
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@hpod16 the instance was born in October 2025. I wanted to create an "ethical" digital platform for Catholic Communities, priests and Catholic educators. We are small at the moment, but with God's help, we will grow.
@amministratore Inshallah!
Good luck with that
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@clickhere @Trojaner @mastodonie @alex_p_roe
Ok but let me understand this:
I can only really see those icons, if I'm on that Irish instance? Or if my instance supports those? Wondering if it's worth going down the rabbit hole of figuring out how to make these / use these for our official EU Commission instance...@hpod16 @clickhere @Trojaner @mastodonie See this: How to add custom emoji to your own Mastodon server: https://fedi.tips/using-custom-emoji-on-your-mastodon-server/ I don’t know how to set up a Mastodon instance but I bet there’s lots of info on how to do it - probably on fedi.tips
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@clickhere @Trojaner @mastodonie @alex_p_roe
Ok but let me understand this:
I can only really see those icons, if I'm on that Irish instance? Or if my instance supports those? Wondering if it's worth going down the rabbit hole of figuring out how to make these / use these for our official EU Commission instance...@hpod16 There is now a huge pool of icons that the admins exchange with each other. If they are not installed on the local server, you can only see the code.
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Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?@hpod16 I personally hand out the Mastodon licenses for Europe
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Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?@hpod16 welcome to Mastodon!
I hope you'll enjoy being here.
As for your mission, It's my belief that explaining exactly what ActivityPub (and not just Mastodon) actually would be a great first step. ActivityPub is the protocol that every Fediverse service uses to dialogue with other services.
I also believe that @_elena and her (I hope this is the right pronoun Elena, if not just make me know and I'll edit) videos explaining the Fediverse would help a lot
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@hpod16 The Fediverse is global, but Europe has a lot of instances and users.
The EU institutions should have own instances
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Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?@hpod16 Welcome. What got you on board, and particularly what got you on board with the eupolicy.social site?
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Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?@hpod16 Welcome!
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@hpod16 Welcome. What got you on board, and particularly what got you on board with the eupolicy.social site?
@ptvirgo
I'm a social media manager at the European Commission.
We didn't have enough Mastodon experts on the team (we do have some) so I decided to join Mastodon myself to learn more about what works here, etc.
I went for eupolicy.social after a brief search, looks like it was made for people in the EU bubble, which I very much am.
(despite the fact that I have purple hair and interesting hobbies) -
Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?@hpod16 @raymierussell encourage more official news outlets, magazines, blogs, journalists etc to have a presence here.
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@hpod16 @raymierussell encourage more official news outlets, magazines, blogs, journalists etc to have a presence here.
@simonharper @raymierussell
You're giving me ideas about starting a thread to collect journalists and news outlets here. Thanks -
@simonharper @raymierussell
You're giving me ideas about starting a thread to collect journalists and news outlets here. Thanks@hpod16 @raymierussell that would be great.
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Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?@hpod16 Welcome! I think it's a good time to be having this conversation.
Is there any appetite (& budget?) in your group to do some user experience work to find out what barriers non-technical users have (or perceive) about coming to the Fediverse?
My personal take is that decentralization is not necessarily, in & of itself, a positive feature. Mostly people just want to talk to their friends & other interesting people they've met. The details of how that's achieved are less important to them
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@hpod16 Welcome! I think it's a good time to be having this conversation.
Is there any appetite (& budget?) in your group to do some user experience work to find out what barriers non-technical users have (or perceive) about coming to the Fediverse?
My personal take is that decentralization is not necessarily, in & of itself, a positive feature. Mostly people just want to talk to their friends & other interesting people they've met. The details of how that's achieved are less important to them
@hpod16 And there is no doubt that decentralization causes additional complexities for certain aspects of the Fedi, such as moderation (which is a huge one).
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@ptvirgo
I'm a social media manager at the European Commission.
We didn't have enough Mastodon experts on the team (we do have some) so I decided to join Mastodon myself to learn more about what works here, etc.
I went for eupolicy.social after a brief search, looks like it was made for people in the EU bubble, which I very much am.
(despite the fact that I have purple hair and interesting hobbies)@hpod16 The European Commission is looking to expand it's presence here, and it's your job to understand how to proceed?
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@hpod16 The European Commission is looking to expand it's presence here, and it's your job to understand how to proceed?
@ptvirgo I never said expand
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@BrennpunktUA @hpod16 Even if Mastodon itself does not sell, track or monitor - anyone could (since it's all out in the open as you stated before. No need for an account even.)
And I beg to differ about the likeliness of a take over by "fascists"/malicious actors. Not as in server take over, but in "join and spam" or "join and deceive"-runs, the operation financed by e.g. big tech
I think that WILL happen when Mastodon reaches a critical mass, and the @Mastodon developers need to be prepared.
@gagagoogle you can't track a location, if there isn't any. You can't track engagement on other websites, if you don't have neither the cookies, nor the IPs. Just two examples.
I'm pretty sure,
is aware of potential abuse. Yet, ofc, everything that is publically visible, is trackable. You might choose not to go for your real name and not posting any photos of yourself, your friends, neighborhoods or home, for example. -
@hpod16 @Mastodon
It could be hindered if there was more possibilities for server-owners to identify bad actors on their servers.Since moderation is not cheap. It could instead be done with help from the users, by adding a "report abuse"-button to each post. Any user could then flag any post.
The server-owner should be able to mark some users as "trustworthy" giving their abuse-reports some sort of priority and the opposite too, "untrustworthy" for users who abuse this reporting system.
"by adding a "report abuse"-button to each post. Any user could then flag any post"
There already is? Screenshot 3 shows how you can report additional posts (the original one is already marked) of the same "abuse category" of the same user in just one step. If the user is on a different server, you can choose to report to your server only, or to both.
But yeah, trusted flaggers like @hateaid are very helpful, too.
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Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?@hpod16 to what extent is the EU commission interested in "European" services for the purpose of exerting legal or extralegal influence on them? one notable factor about mastodon (more notable than its nationality) is its conformance to a standard set of protocols and open source codebase, which undermines the ability for governments and/or corporations to control it.
you identify that this structure is able to resist US influence, but haven't elaborated on what the EU commission values about mastodon.
i would be very interested to hear more about the goals of the EU commission for social media and to consider how these might align with mastodon. i am a big fan of EU commission projects like NGI Zero and would love to see further government support for open protocols that nonetheless enable instances to exert their own policies—much like the system of international law allows for each polity to maintain its own system while interfacing with others.
i used to work on open source software for the US federal government and would love to see that approach taken up elsewhere.
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@ptvirgo I never said expand
The European Commission is here already, and I'm just trying to build a little extra knowledge to support my team@hpod16 No, you did not say expand! Sorry, sometimes I have to ask silly questions to make sure I understand. Feel free to shush me if I make a rude mistake.
It seems like you've enjoyed most of the introductions, at least.
